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Thank you for your wonderful feedback Arthur. Jeremy Griffith’s definitive book FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition is free on our homepage here (along with the book version of THE Interview and his other key books) to read online or download. You can also download the free Kindle version from Amazon. Otherwise you can purchase hard copies from Amazon or other good bookstores.

It certainly can be overwhelming trying to deal with the human-condition-afflicted suffering in ourselves and the world Rose, but as you say, if we can understand why it all happened then we can cope and thrive again. What is so significant about Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition is we no longer have to be burdened by the fundamental question of whether we are good or bad because our core goodness as individuals and as a species has been biologically established. We can know our psychological upset was the price humans had to pay for searching for knowledge and that the human story presents the greatest, most heroic story ever told. So we can now look after ourselves with great compassion and kindness and we don’t have to overly confront the upset within us (as FAQ 1.19 ‘A caution about the danger of over-exposure / Advice for people with mental health issues’ summarises).

It is wonderful you now want to read Jeremy Griffith’s definitive book FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition Occi! It is free on our homepage here (along with the book version of THE Interview and his other key books) to read online or download. You can also download the free Kindle version from Amazon. Otherwise you can purchase hard copies from Amazon or other good bookstores.

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    Jeremy Griffith discusses in THE Interview and in more detail FREEDOM (ch. 5) that the cooperative and gentle of the bonobo chimpanzee represent a far better model of our human ancestors than the common chimpanzee. Both share approximately 99% of their DNA with humans, however bonobo physiology, bipedality, environment, intelligence and reduced canine size, better match our human ancestors. Reduced canine size is particularly relevant as it is arguably the outstanding features of the hominin clade, and universally accepted as an indication of reduced aggression. Fossil evidence of our cooperative past, including reduced canines, has lead the prominent anthropologist C. Owen Lovejoy to write that “our species-defining cooperative mutualism can now be seen to extend well beyond the deepest Pliocene [well beyond 5.3 mya]”. No, our selfishness and aggression is not instinctive in origin; all the evidence shows that our instinctive heritage is cooperate.     Even though other animals display various levels of socialness they are driven by gene-based natural selection and the essential fact or rule of natural selection is that genes are unavoidably selfish, so there is a fundamental limit to the amount of selfless, loving behaviour they can develop. One brilliant aspect of biologist Jeremy Griffith’s work is his explanation of how humans biologically overcame this genetic limitation through what he identifies as the ‘love-indoctrination’ process, which produced our genuinely all-loving, altruistic instincts. FAQ 5.2 ‘How did we acquire our moral soul’ summarises this explanation, using the example of the extraordinarily cooperative bonobos, who have developed this ‘love-indoctrination’ process to a lesser degree.     ‘The fall’ is the religious term that describes our species transition from a cooperative instinctive state into a competitive conscious state. How and why this occurred is the core question before our species. We needed a scientific explanation for why when the universal ideals are to be loving, cooperative and selfless are we so angry, competitive and selfish. This is what Jeremy Griffith has answered with explanation of how the ‘instinct vs intellect’ conflict caused us to be come psycholologically upset sufferers of the human condition, and why his work has received praise from eminent scientists and thought leaders around the world (see their commendations on our homepage).

There are certainly thinkers who have touched on aspects of the human condition but for the destructive affects of the human condition to end we needed to answer the essential question of why, when the ideals are to be loving and selfless, are we so competitive and selfish? It is this core question of the human condition that biologist Jeremy Griffith has answered with his instinct vs intellect explanation and what is so significant about his work. It deals with the source of our species’ corrupted condition and brings relieving understanding to it, see FAQ 6.5 Is this just another self-help, New Age, pseudo idealistic, superficial-treatment-of-psychosis type movement?

The book version of THE Interview is free on our homepage here (along with Jeremy Griffith’s other key books including his definitive book FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition) to read online or download. You can also download the free Kindle version from Amazon. Otherwise you can purchase hard copies from Amazon or other good bookstores.

Mindfulness is a useful therapy but this is not about such practices. There have been thousands of years of different techniques for calming, restraining, repressing, and even transcending our psychologically upset human condition which have been very valuable in managing our upset, but none of them have brought an end to the upset state of the human condition—it’s still rampant everywhere. The reason is because they don’t solve the human condition. They don’t deal with the source of our species’ corrupted condition and bring relieving understanding to it. This is what Jeremy Griffith’s treatise does and why it is heralded as the biological breakthrough that can save the world. See FAQ 6.5 Is this just another self-help, New Age, pseudo idealistic, superficial-treatment-of-psychosis type movement?

    While there are remnants of selfish reciprocity, sexual opportunism and aggression in bonobo behaviour, as indicated in THE Interview they are extraordinarily nurturing, and extraordinarily gentle and cooperative. Bonobos’ engagement in opportunistic hunting is discussed in Jeremy Griffith’s definitive book FREEDOM, ch. 2:11 ‘Multilevel Selection theory for eusociality’. To quote “While bonobos have been known to capture and eat small game, including small monkeys, to supplement their diet with protein, they are not known to routinely hunt down and eat large animals such as colobus monkeys, like chimpanzees do, with ‘hunting behavior [by bonobos] very rare’ (Tetsuya Sakamaki...). [E.O.] Wilson relies upon a 2008 report by [Gottfried] Hohmann titled ‘Primate hunting by bonobos at LuiKotale, Salonga National Park’ to draw these erroneous comparisons with the more aggressive chimpanzees—but Hohmann’s report actually reveals extraordinary differences between bonobos and chimpanzees...”     We are proposing that without understanding of the human condition, humans have found the cooperative and gentle nature of bonobos (and our cooperative heritage depicted in myths) highly confronting of our own upset state (dealt with at length in FREEDOM chs. 5 & 6) and instead want to use chimpanzee’s aggressive nature as a model for human behaviour (which supports the false ‘savage instincts’ excuse addressed in this interview). This quote from primatologist Frans de Waal, who refers to the bonobos as ‘the forgotten ape’, supports this (see ch. 6:6): “Two strategies have emerged to keep bonobos at a distance so as to preserve chimpanzee-based scenarios of human evolution, which traditionally emphasize warfare, hunting, tool use, and male dominance. The first strategy is to describe the bonobo as an interesting but specialized anomaly that can be safely ignored as a possible model of the last common ancestor... The second strategy, adopted by [Craig] Stanford, is to minimize the differences between the two Pan species: if bonobos behave, by and large, like chimpanzees, there is no reason to question the latter species’ prominence as a model”.

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    It is wonderful to hear of your enthusiasm for Jeremy’s work Steven and thank you for your question as even though the fundamental explanation is very simple, there is much to absorb about this new paradigm of thinking. The solution is finally having the psychosis-addressing-and-solving, real explanation of the human condition and the legitimate return to a selfless way of living that brings about.     To clarify, all the problems we’re experiencing on this planet, aside from natural phenomenon, are caused by us humans. We are the ones who are egocentric, selfish, greedy, materialistic, fake, angry as hell. And so it’s that underlying issue—our ‘good and evil’ stricken human condition—that has to be addressed and fixed if we are to solve the world’s problems and that is exactly what Jeremy Griffith’s ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation of the human condition does (see FAQs 1.4—1.6). And, as THE Interview explains, this will solve problems very quickly because instead of us being preoccupied with proving ourselves artificially (through seeking power, fame, fortune and glory) all our energies will be freed to truly work together and focus on doing whatever it takes to end the suffering in all the corners of the world. So, in a world fast going crazy from the effects of the human condition, this is the now desperately needed reconciling understanding that brings about a new world for humans FREE of the agony of the human condition. This is the understanding that ends human suffering at its source, and unites the human race (see our Transformation page).     This transformation is happening as you can see the ecstatic responses THE Interview is receiving on our homepage and scroll down to see the rapidly growing appreciation and support for the WTM with outstanding commendations from thought leaders and WTM Centres all over the world! Also, more people each day are joining our Facebook Group and registering for our live events with Jeremy and others to share in this all-clarifying, all-redeeming, all-reconciling, all-healing and all-liberating knowledge!

Yes, everyone is a unique individual, and the mind is incredibly complex, but with Jeremy Griffith’s breakthrough explanation of the human condition, we can now understand that all humans, even though they manifest it in a million different ways, suffer from a fundamental insecurity over their self-worth caused by the clash between our instincts and intellect. It is this core issue that Jeremy addresses and solves, and is why this redeems, reconciles and rehabilitates everyone.

“Bonobos are merciless,” says Gottfried Hohmann, a behavioural ecologist at Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. He witnessed several monkey hunts among bonobos living in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and says, “they catch it and start eating it. They don’t bother to kill it”.

Great to have your interest Marcia and going back and re-watching THE Interview is exactly what we recommend people do as, even though the fundamental explanation is very simple, there is much to absorb about this new paradigm of thinking. THE Interview and our Introductory Video series, along with Jeremy Griffith’s other key books, are always freely available to access on our homepage HumanCondition.com. You can also register for Jeremy’s live events and join our WTM Facebook Group where there is much fascinating discussion taking place.

It is wonderful you now want to read Jeremy Griffith’s definitive book FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition Isaiah which is free on our homepage here (along with his other key books) to read online or download. You can also download the free Kindle version from Amazon. Otherwise you can purchase hard copies from Amazon or other good bookstores.

    Thank you very much for your consideration Sarah. Yes, some of humanity’s acts are so terrible that it is tempting to think they have to be the result of some inexplicable ‘evil’, but we suggest that when you appreciate just how psychologically ‘upset’ humans now are after 2 million years of unjust condemnation from our instincts, how ‘murderous-with-rage’ we actually are, you will appreciate that being psychologically upset does account for the horrendous attrocities humans can commit (what we’ve historically termed ‘evil’). As the Australian author Morris West so bravely acknowledged in his memoir, A View from the Ridge, the wrong circumstances are enough to make any of us act terribly: “brutalise a child and you create a casualty or a criminal. Bribe a servant of the state and you will soon hear the deathwatch beetles chewing away at the rooftrees of society. The disease of evil [now able to be understood as upset] is pandemic; it spares no individual, no society, because all are predisposed to it. It is this predisposition which is the root of the mystery [of ‘evil’ that is now explained]. I cannot blame a Satan, a Lucifer, a Mephistopheles, for the evils I have committed, the consequences of which have infected other people’s lives. I know, as certainly as I know anything, that the roots are in myself, buried deeper than I care to delve, in caverns so dark that I fear to explore them. I know that, given the circumstances and the provocation, I could commit any crime in the calendar”     Yes, as is explained in FAQ 1.38 “we can now see why our species has not just been ego-centric, but ego-infuriated, even ego-gone-mad-with-murderous-rage for having to live with so much unjust criticism/guilt, for some 2 million years. At long last we have the reason for humans’ capacity for shocking acts of cruelty, sadism, hate, murder and warfare—we now know the source of the dark volcanic forces in us humans.” Importantly, as this FAQ explains, this understanding of why we became upset as a species does not condone or sanction the horrific violence humans can commit, rather, through bringing understanding to humans’ upset behaviour, it gives us the power to ameliorate and thus subside and ultimately eliminate it.

Thank you for your kind words of encouragement Rhiana however we wanted to clarify there is a huge distinction between biologist Jeremy Griffith’s work and that of Indian guru Sadhguru. His understanding of the power of consciously living is from teaching transcendence of our anger, alienation and selfish egocentricity, whereas Jeremy’s focus is to resolve it at its source and that is the great breakthrough his work presents. There have been thousands of years of different techniques for calming and restraining our psychologically upset human condition, which have been very valuable in managing our upset, but none of them have brought an end to the upset state of the human condition—it’s still rampant everywhere—and the reason is because they don’t deal with the source of our species’ corrupted condition and biologically establish our fundamental goodness as a species. You can read more about the difference between Jeremy’s work and new age, pseudo idealistic movements in FAQ 6.5.

Explanation of the human condition does take time to digest but as THE Interview explains the only way we can address human divisiveness and prejudice is to address and solve its source which is what Jeremy Griffith’s breakthrough instinct vs intellect explanation of the human condition finally does. It allows us to understand why bigotry in all its forms has existed under the duress of the human condition and, most importantly, finally brings it to an end. For example, the desperately needed reconciling understanding of the relationship between races is explained in Freedom Essay 28; and for a testimonial on the power of this information to end racism, we recommend watching/reading the presentation from Franklin Mukakanga, of Zambia, in Video/Freedom Essay 8.

    The solution is understanding the human condition and the legitimate return to a selfless way of living that brings about. To clarify, all the problems we’re experiencing on this planet, aside from natural phenomenon, are caused by us humans. We are the ones who are egocentric, selfish, greedy, materialistic, fake, angry as hell. And so it’s that underlying issue—our ‘good and evil’ stricken human condition—that has to be addressed and fixed if we are to solve the world’s problems and that is exactly what Jeremy Griffith’s ‘instinct vs intellect’ explanation of the human condition does (see FAQs 1.5 & 1.6). And, as THE Interview explains, this will solve problems very quickly because instead of us being preoccupied with proving ourselves artificially (through seeking power, fame, fortune and glory) all our energies will be freed to truly work together and focus on doing whatever it takes to end the suffering in all the corners of the world. So, in a world fast going crazy from the effects of the human condition, this is the now desperately needed reconciling understanding that brings about a new world for humans FREE of the agony of the human condition. This is the understanding that ends human suffering at its source, and unites the human race (see FAQs 4.1, 4.4 & our Transformation page).     This transformation of our world isn’t a theory it is happening! You can see the ecstatic responses THE Interview is receiving on our homepage and scroll down to see the rapidly growing appreciation and support for the WTM with outstanding commendations from thought leaders and WTM Centres all over the world! Also, more people each day are joining our WTM Facebook Group and registering for our live events with Jeremy and others to share in this all-clarifying, all-redeeming, all-reconciling, all-healing and all-liberating knowledge!

While Christianity and other religions do contain all manner of extraordinarily profound truth about human life, it is from a pre-scientific view. Ultimately we needed to find the scientific explanation for why when the universal ideals are to be loving, cooperative and selfless are we so angry, competitive and selfish. Answering this question required finding the clarifying difference between the way the intellect and instincts work, and that is the great biological breakthrough Jeremy Griffith presents in THE Interview and his book FREEDOM. What Jeremy is putting forward is that for there to be a fundamental change in our human situation we had to understand the human condition – humans’ capacity for good and evil – from a biological perspective. You might find our FAQs about religion helpful. Also Jeremy’s Freedom Essays 38 – 41, which decipher religion, are absolutely fascinating.

The book version of THE Interview is free on our homepage here (along with Jeremy Griffith’s other key books including his definitive book FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition) to read online or download. You can also download the free Kindle version from Amazon. Otherwise you can purchase hard copies from Amazon or other good bookstores.

As with any new scientific breakthrough in history it will take time to gain mainstream acceptance, and from there break through the bastions of power in the world. However once this information gets a foothold through enough people developing a deep appreciation and desire to support it, the selfless love and energy that will generate will solve our problems very quickly because instead of being preoccupied with power, fame, fortune and glory, all our energies will be freed to truly work together and focus on doing whatever it takes to end the suffering in all the corners of the world. Jeremy Griffith elaborates on this need for power, control and domination in Freedom Essay 62 where he gives a full presentation of the entire human journey and how understanding of the human condition now makes possible the real therapy and rehabilitation of the human race.

    Even though THE Interview is only a summary presentation, Part 4 does address this and explains that for the upset within us to be completely healed it will take generations but importantly we can be immediately free of its effects (also see FAQ 4.1). This is further explained on our Transformation page and also comprehensively answered in Jeremy Griffith’s definitive book FREEDOM chapter 9.     You are right to stress this point though Guy, as our universal upset is now so great that virtually all humans will now need some form of therapy. Jeremy is actually currently writing two new Freedom Essays about the genuinely effective therapy and healing that understanding of the human condition now makes possible. These are Essays 63: ‘Pseudo Therapy/Healing’ and 64: ‘Real Therapy/Healing’. Essay 63 will explain there are many approaches that seek to heal and therapise human psychoses but they are all coming from an extremely dishonest and superficial, human-condition-avoiding, pseudo therapising angle and Essay 64 will present the human-condition-confronting, honest, true, genuinely effective therapy/healing that understanding of the human condition now makes possible.

FREEDOM has certainly intrigued many others Lori being number 10 on Amazon UK Bestsellers List in Dec 2021 (see here)! It is Jeremy Griffith’s definitive book so watching this summary interview and our Introductory Video series (all freely available at HumanCondition.com) as you are doing is the perfect way to explore and consider this all-important explanation and the astonishing transformation it leads to. Feel free to contact us with any questions or thoughts you have along the way and register for Jeremy’s live events and you also like to join our WTM Facebook Group where there is much interesting and excited discussion taking place.

To solve end human suffering we have to address it’s cause. While Christianity and other religions contain all manner of extraordinarily profound truth about human life, it is from a pre-scientific view. Ultimately we needed to find the scientific explanation for why when the universal ideals are to be loving, cooperative and selfless are we so angry, competitive and selfish. Answering this question required finding the clarifying difference between the way the intellect and instincts work, and that is the profound biological breakthrough Jeremy presents as recognised by eminent scientists and thought leaders around the world (see their commendations on our homepage). What Jeremy is putting forward is that for there to be a fundamental change in our human situation we had to understand the human condition – humans’ capacity for good and evil – from a biological perspective.

Explanation of the human condition does take time to digest but as THE Interview explains humans’ anger and greed isn’t the result of survival instincts rather it is the result of a psychosis, caused by the clash between our instinct and intellect (which Video/Freedom Essay 3 further explains). Significantly a psychosis is changeable as it can be healed through understanding—a revelation that can transform the human race (see FAQ 1.6)!

Thanks for your viewpoint Guy. Jeremy Griffith’s treatise explains from first principle biology that the nature or meaning of life isn’t chaos but rather integration or order, see FAQ 5.3 ‘What is the integrative meaning of life’.

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Thank you for The Human Condition Solved. We are love. We are one. We are the children of the Sun. We all remember our ancient instincts it is our natural state. We will return to this as there is a massive awareness that things have gone so badly wrong over thousands of years. The Age of Aquarius is upon us now and we need to join together and share this important knowledge. Stay on a positive vibration and not be controlled by the corrupt media and governments. Brightest blessings to you all.

Great to have your interest Rea. Our homepage— HumanCondition.com— provides a wonderful road map to pursue your interest with all our key material made freely available and you can register for free, live, interactive presentations with Jeremy about this immensely relieving understanding! You may also like to join our Facebook Group where there is much interesting and excited discussion taking place.

The central tenet of Jeremy Griffith’s explanation of the human condition is that humans have a cooperative, loving instinctive heritage, not a brutish, savage and aggressive one, and therefore it follows that he recognises that the more ‘primitive’ are race of people is, such as in indigenous cultures, the more cooperative and loving they will be, which is the source of their collectivist, holistic thinking. You might be interested in chapter 8:12 of Jeremy’s definitive book FREEDOM, which discusses the relatively innocent Bushmen of the Kalahari at some length. However, what needs to be answered and what is of unique significance about Jeremy’s treatise is he has answered the essential question of why we departed from that innocent state. Why when the universal ideals are to be loving, cooperative and selfless are we so angry, competitive and selfish, so much so that we are destroying ourselves and our world? Ultimately we needed the rational, biological, accountable explanation for our ‘fall’ from grace, which is what is provided here, and the more you digest it, the more you will realise that it does reconcile all the polarities of human live, such as instinct and intellect, left-wing and right-wing, good and bad etc.

Jeremy Griffith’s work is about confronting and solving the human condition, and given our historic way of coping with the human condition has been to avoid it at all costs, Jeremy’s REAL path to our species’ salvation is a tough one to initiate, however humanity’s uptake of the explanation of the human condition has a fast finish, because, as Jeremy explains in chapter 9 of his definitive book FREEDOM, once people start having the legitimate ‘change of heart’ that this information allows, the selflessness that it liberates will not only quickly solve all the problems on the planet including teaching other people about this redeeming information, but the excitement and joy it brings means everyone will want to get on board, even the black sheep. For example, Jeremy writes in paragraph 1253, “Materialism and greed are old baggage now, discarded rubbish to be left on the garbage tip. No one is going to buy them anymore. Their power to seduce is gone because the most magnificent alternative has arrived to transport everyone to a world of soul, real love, real meaning, real togetherness and real happiness. Everyone, every Peruvian, every Kenyan, every Chinese person, every Indian, every American, every European, all people on Earth, can now join the great exodus from the, in truth, terrible human-condition-afflicted, materialistic, greedy, selfish existence. NO ONE WILL WANT THAT ANYMORE WHEN THE TRUTH GETS OUT ABOUT WHAT IS ON OFFER NOW!”

It is very important to note that Jeremy Griffith’s work not an idealistic plea for everyone to behave cooperatively, it is a biological defence of ‘realism’. More particularly, as is explained in FAQ 6.6, “while it is easy to identify with the ideal of everyone being cooperative and loving, the whole objective of the human journey was, as mentioned, to find understanding of why humans have not been cooperative and loving and instead so divisively competitive and aggressive. That is the great riddle of the human condition that had to be explained, and what is finally revealed with Jeremy’s biological explanation is that there has been an all-important, good reason for that divisive behaviour. It’s always been easy to side with idealism and denigrate realism, but now at last we can understand the real world humans have been living in where we have had to be competitive, aggressive and selfish, and, most wonderfully of all, by revealing that reason, ending the need for that divisive behaviour.” It is that ‘all-important, good reason’ that is explained by the intellect vs instinct explanation of the human condition that is presented in THE Interview. See also FAQ 6.5 on the difference between the explanation of the human condition and New Age pseudo idealism.